Chiara Izzi & Perry Smith - Monday Night Jazz Cabaret

1265 1st Street,Sarasota FL 34236

09 May, 2022

Description

“It’s very important for me to make music as a peacemaker, to work creating bridges between different worlds..." Chiara Chiara IzziChiara Izzi is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Italy who has been based in New York City since 2014, three years after Quincy Jones awarded her first prize in the 2011 Montreux International Jazz Festival Vocal Competition. In April 2020 she also won one Independent Music Award for Best Jazz song with Vocals with her composition “Circles Of The Mind”. Since arriving, she’s become one of New York’s busiest vocalists, sharing bandstands with such luminaries as Kevin Hays, Leon Parker, Ken Peplowski, Diego Figueiredo, Jeff Hamilton, Aaron Goldberg, Bruce Barth, Eliot Zigmund, Warren Wolf, and Anthony Wonsey.Upon her arrival in August 2014, Izzi took an apartment in Harlem and began making the rounds of New York’s clubs, using the Motifs CD as a calling card. She also quickly found leader and sidemen engagements at Iridium, Smalls Jazz Club, Blue Note, 55 Bar, Birdland Jazz Club. Like a true New Yorker, Izzi, circa 2019, is already working on new projects that include a prospective album of Izzi’s original music with her band, and a forthcoming duo album on Dot Time Records with Neapolitan pianist Andrea Rea culled from a live December 2018 recording session in Bremen, Germany, on which she primarily performs songs in Italian and Spanish.Perry SmithGuitarist Perry Smith combines the tradition of Jazz with broad influences from contemporary music to create his signature style. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Smith is now based in Brooklyn where he performs as a bandleader and as a sideman for local and touring artists. Smith’s extensive performance resume includes notable venues and festivals such as the Blue Note Jazz Club (NYC & Tokyo), Smalls Jazz Club (NYC), Dizzy's Club Coca Cola (NYC), Montreal Jazz Festival, Java Jazz Festival (Indonesia), Jazz a la Calle (Uruguay), Rochester Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, Yoshi's Jazz Club (Bay Area), The Blue Whale (LA), Philippine International Jazz Festival, The Healdsburg Guitar Festival and SFJazz.